Fw: Upcoming Education Public Programs: April 22-28

[Jenny Lando <jenny@amnh.org>]

Late notice, but a followup to previous discussions....(apologies for cross
posting)


Subject: Upcoming Education Public Programs: April 22-28


> Education Public Programs invites you to the following events for April
> 22-28
>
> HOT TOPICS IN SCIENCE & CULTURE
>
> Evolution or Intelligent Design? Examining the Intelligent Design Issue
> Tuesday, April 23, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
> $15 ($13.50 Members, students, senior citizens)
> Kaufmann Theater, first floor
>
> Mainstream biology is based on Charles Darwin's view that structural
> complexity can be explained through natural selection, but the new theory
of
> intelligent design (ID) posits that the complex structures of living
> organisms can only be the product of some kind of conscious design. Many
> biologists dismiss ID as merely a current expression of creationism.
>
> Eugenie C. Scott, Executive Director of the National Center for Science
> Education, Inc., will moderate the discussion between evolutionists
Kenneth
> R. Miller, a biology professor at Brown University and author of the book
> Finding Darwin's God, and Robert T. Pennock, a philosophy of science
> professor at Michigan State University and author of Tower of Babel, and
two
> of ID's leading proponents, Michael Behe, Professor of Biological
Sciences,
> Lehigh University and author of Darwin's Black Box, and William Dembski,
> Associate Research Professor, Baylor University and author of The Design
> Inference: Eliminating Chance through Small Probabilities. Co-presented
with
> Natural History magazine, which will publish a series of articles by some
of
> the panelists in the April issue.